Dear Evo-Devo Community,

In advance of EuroEvoDevo 2024 in Helsinki (June 25-28), we are holding
the Satellite Symposium "The Evo-Devo of Fish Biodiversity: Past -
Present - Future" on June 24-25, 2024.

Fishes make up about 50% of all living vertebrates and most vertebrate
developmental processes and mechanisms evolved within fishes. The
evolutionary-developmental investigation of fishes illuminates not only
their exceptional biodiversity but also our own human origins from fish
ancestors. Evo-Devo-ted laboratories around the globe are using a large
variety of piscine model species in their research - from jawless to
cartilaginous to ray-finned and teleost fishes and to lobe-finned fishes
including fishapods.

In this 2-day Satellite Symposium, we will bring together the
international Fish Evo-Devo community to discuss the advances and future
of our field. Our program highlights the diversity of our community in
terms of investigator backgrounds, career stages, research approaches,
and fish model systems.

The program covers multiple topical sessions, an award session for
postdocs and graduate students, flash talks associated with posters,
and time for networking and discussion.

Keynote Speakers: Sam Giles (University of Birmingham, UK) and Daniel
Pauly (University of British Columbia, CA)

This satellite meeting is part of the EuroEvoDevo 2024 conference (June
25-28) and registration to the main conference is required to attend
this symposium.

For more info, see our website:
https://sites.google.com/view/fishevodevo2024/

The DEADLINE for abstract submission and early registration to the
symposium is February 29, 2024.

1. Please register for the main EuroEvoDevo 2024 Conference
first by February 29, and select the Fish Satellite
Symposium. https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/euroevodevo-2024

2. Then register and submit your abstract to our symposium here:
https://sites.google.com/view/fishevodevo2024/registration-abstract-submission

Note that our symposium is capped at 100 participants, so get your
registrations in soon!

For questions and inquiries, please contact us at
fishevodevo2024@gmail.com.

Best fishes and see you in Fin-Land in Summer!

Ingo Braasch (Michigan State University, US), Emilia Santos (University of
Cambridge, UK), Hugo Gante (KU Leuven, BE), and Vincent Laudet (Okinawa
Institute of Technology, JP) - Co-Organizers

braasch@msu.edu

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